Providence Day Student Takes Prize In C-SPAN Documentary Contest

CHARLOTTE, NC — A Charlotte-area high school student’s documentary on human trafficking has been awarded a prize in a national C-SPAN’s 2018 StudentCam competition. Ari Gibson, a freshman at Providence Day School, won an honorable mention for her 7-minute submission interviewing trafficking victims.

The theme for this year’s StudentCam documentary competition sponsored by the cable industry’s public service station was “The Constitution & You: Choose a provision of the U.S. Constitution and create a video illustrating why it's important to you." C-SPAN received nearly 3,000 entries from 46 states and Washington, D.C.

The competition is sponsored by the C-SPAN Education Foundation and videos were evaluated by a panel of educators and C-SPAN representatives.

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Students compete on a regional level and one grand-prize winner is selected on a national level. In addition to the grand-prize, the competition awards four first-prize winners 16 second-prize winners, 32 third-prize winners and 97 honorable mentions.

“With so much national debate about government power and personal freedoms, we were eager to hear students' perspectives on what the Constitution means to them,” C-SPAN's Manager of Education Relations Craig McAndrew said in a statement. “Students across the country engaged in conversation on the local level with elected officials, experts, community leaders and educators to explore how national issues impact their daily lives.”

“Congratulations to Ari as an honorable mention winner in C-SPAN's national StudentCam documentary competition – it’s a terrific recognition,” Adam Falk, Senior Vice President, State Government Affairs, Charter Communication, said in a statement.

You can watch Gibson’s documentary “Let’s Stop Traffik — Human Trafficking Documentary” here.

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